The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
WILL DURANTOne of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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